The ECB has undertaken work to harmonise the different supervisory options and discretions (ODs) existing in European legislation (CRR, CRD IV and delegated acts). Following a public consultation, it expects to release a final ECB Regulation on ODs in the first quarter of 2016.

The ECB has developed a common methodology for the ongoing assessment of banks’ risks, their governance arrangements and their capital and liquidity situation for performing the Supervisory Review and Evaluation Process (SREP). It publishes details on the:

The ECB publishes aggregate statistical data on the European banking sector, including data on credit risk, operational risk, market risk, and supervisory actions and measures. The reference date for the data is 31 December of the preceding year.